Skydiver death is site’s 6th in a year
Local and federal authorities are investigating the death Sunday of a skydiver near Ottawa, the sixth fatality at the Skydive Chicago club in just over a year. Ronald Passmore Jr.,...
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7 kept Brown’s secret, cops say
A man who since 1998 knew who allegedly committed the Brown's Chicken & Pasta Restaurant slayings is expected to testify Monday before a Cook County grand jury, according to police...
Brothers’ conviction in slaying thrown out
The Illinois Appellate Court on Wednesday threw out the 1991 murder convictions of two brothers and ordered a new trial, citing witnesses who came forward after the trial to say...
Arrests ease family’s pain
For more than a year, Lora Roscetti has been tortured by the idea that not only were the wrong men incarcerated for the murder of her daughter, but that the...
Judge in hot seat seldom plays it cool
Cook County Circuit Judge Ronald Himel's rulings have been overturned several times by appeals courts because of his tendency, as one lawyer calls it, "to shoot from the lip." And...
When jail is no alibi in murders
Early on a December morning in 1992, a 17-year-old gang member named Daniel Taylor sat in a windowless police interrogation room and confessed to a double murder committed two weeks...
Officers ignore laws set up to guard kids
Putting pressure to confess on the most vulnerable of suspects, police in Chicago and Cook County have repeatedly flouted the law while interrogating juveniles, disregarding decades-old safeguards and building murder...
Veteran detective’s murder cases unravel
He has obtained a confession from a man who, records show, was in jail when the murder occurred. He has obtained a confession from a man accused of two murders,...
Coercive and illegal tactics torpedo scores of Cook County murder cases
Substituting interrogation for thorough investigation, police in Chicago and Cook County have repeatedly closed murder cases with dubious confessions that imprison the innocent while killers go free. In the first...
3 Roscetti inmates walk free
Omar Saunders used a cell phone for the first time Wednesday and called his girlfriend. Larry Ollins wanted any kind of food that was "unpenitentiary," as long as it was...